Bamford: Hopefully I’m going to do a new album soon, and there’s a bit about being on a radio show. The DJ says, “Apparently this woman, she’s supposed to be funny. Whoa, I don’t get it. Uh, frankly, I just think she’s schizophrenic.” I tell him that schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices, and then get into this long diatribe about how it takes tenacity and courage to create something. “Hey, coward, if you sing out your Batman poetry to a largely hostile Barnes & Noble crowd; or if you crank out a raw, unedited skull of a granny smith apple, pop that on a Bratz doll torso, upload that to Etsy; if you think of doing a nude clown opera, and then fucking ... Continue reading →
The Made in NY Digital Map is a visual testament to the vibrant state of New York's digital industry - showing a powerful constellation of over 500 homegrown startups, investors and coworking spaces across the five boroughs. Browse by neighborhood, review job postings, or add your own startup to the digital landscape - the Made in NY Map is a living resource that reflects New York City's dynamic innovation ecosystem. Led by Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to realize New York City's digital potential, the Made in NY Digital Map was created by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment in partnership with Internet Week NY and the New York Tech Meetup. Distribution of the map was also made possible thanks to the Association for a Better ... Continue reading →
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Jeff Neely organized a GSA conference in Las Vegas that cost $800,000 He was implicated in a report by the agency's inspector general and put on leave A GSA spokesman says he's no longer with the agency, but doesn't give details A House Republican says he wants a law making federal employees answer to Congress Washington (CNN) -- The man behind a lavish General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas that critics have lambasted as a waste of taxpayer money and emblematic of government excess has left the agency, a federal spokesman said Thursday. Jeff Neely, a regional commissioner, had been placed on administrative leave in March for his part in organizing a 2010 conference in Nevada that cost $800,000. As of Thursday, ... Continue reading →
By Lora Kolodny[This is part of an ongoing VentureWire series that will examine entrepreneurs and the new, potentially disruptive technologies they are working on.] Yann Ngongang grew up in Cameroon with a profound curiosity about technology. Like many children in the 1980s, Yann Ngongang wanted a Nintendo. Instead of buying him one, his father, a computer scientist, handed him four programming books and an Alice 64K computer. “If you want a game, build it yourself,” he told Ngongang, who was nine years old and living with his family in Cameroon. So that’s what the future entrepreneur did. Ngongang’s father succumbed to liver cancer when Yann was just 14, leaving his son with a profound curiosity about technology, and the inspiration to create things and solve ... Continue reading →
The Verge and other outlets are reporting from the federal courtroom in San Francisco that a jury deliberating the patent-infringement phases of the Oracle-Google trial over Java has come back in favor of Google. The claim had concerned patents in Java that Oracle had accused Google of infringing when it created the Android operating system. Bloomberg News is reporting that the jury has been dimissed, and that there will be no third phase of the trial, which was to have focused on damages in the event that Oracle prevailed. The win for Google in the patent phase comes on top of a narrow but hollow victory for Oracle, in which the enterprise software giant won a part of its argument, but failed to make it ... Continue reading →
